Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British singer David Gray.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
David Peter Gray is a British singer-songwriter. He released his first album in 1993 and received worldwide attention after the release of White Ladder six years later. White Ladder was the first of three UK chart-toppers in six years for Gray; it became the fifth best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK and ranked as the tenth best-selling album of the 21st century in the United Kingdom in October 2019. Gray is also known for the hit single "Babylon" from the White Ladder album. He has received four Brit Award nominations, including two nominations for Best British Male.
I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.
October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.
Everything's stolen. Everything precious - be it a kiss, or be it James Brown - gets misappropriated to the aid of the advertising executives. So, an act of reclamation, somewhere else to be: that's what I want my music to be. Somewhere you can step into. A place.
I guess I'm just a heart-on-sleeve type of human being.
Night falling on the city
Quite something to behold
Don't it just look so pretty
This disappearing world
Wonder in everything No matter how great or small... Same thing that's scrawled across the stars Is written under our skin... There's a time to search for understanding Sometimes you just got to sing New horizons, new horizon within
Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life!
I don't know where emotion emanates from exactly. I'm full of it, that's all I know.
And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds - large, light, and fugitive.
That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.
There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.
It's amazing, the amount of detail and thought that goes into just an average day. Between the things you see on the news, or on the subway, or whatever, it all gets in there. You sort of shut most of it out, but it all goes in.
I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.
You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.
In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.
I find everything a struggle.
In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event." But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write.
I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want: I don't want to just repeat myself.